I went to see the Colorado Rockies play my South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, yesterday afternoon with my friend Mark, seen in the photograph on the left. The Rockies scored 25 runs against the Sox on their way to winning the first two games in the series, and so I did not have much hope for a Chicago victory. All the television sports reporters were wishing the Rockies could play the Sox every day, which is pretty humiliating for a team that was expected to win their division before the start of the season. And therefore I was pleased to see the Sox score 7 runs in the 8th inning and beat the Rockies 10-5.
The White Sox have lost 18 of their last 26 games, resulting in a 49-75 record, one better than the Rockies, the worst team in the National League, which does not speak well for the White Sox. On the bright side, the Sox are in a weak division and while the Rockies are currently 28.5 games out of first, the Sox are a mere 15.5 games back. Which means if they could win their next 16 games in a row, and the other teams in the division go on a losing streak, they could still win it all. Mark feels this is pretty unlikely, and I am afraid he is right. As humorist and White Sox fan Jean Shepherd once said, if he were leading troops during a war and needed to find volunteers for a suicide mission, he would ask if any of those soldiers were White Sox fans, since they are used to hopeless situations. And yes, it is indeed a hopeless situation for both teams, at least for the next several years, if not more.
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